Ethnic labels and philosophy: The case of Latin American philosophy

Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 57-67

  Gracia, Jorge J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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1. See Jorge J. E. Gracia, "The Nature of Ethnicity", Public Affairs Quarterly 13, no. 1(1999):25-42
2. and the discussion of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity in idem, Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000). I am now working on a more general and thorough discussion of these issues in Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality, which is in progress.
3. For a bibliography on this topic, see chapter 5 of Gracia, Hispanic/Latino Identity.
4. I elaborate on this distinction in Jorge J. E. Gracia, Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography (New York: State University of New York Press, 1992), 42-55.
5. Juan Bautista Alberdi, "Ideas", in Escritos póstumos de J. B. Alberdi (Buenos Aires: Imprenta europea, 1900), vol. 25, 603-619.
6. It took off with Leopoldo Zea's "En torno a una filosofía americana", in idem, Ensayos sobre filosofía en la historia (Mexico City: Stylo, 1948), 165-177.
7. See the texts gathered in Jorge J. E. Gracia and Iván Jaksi, eds., Filosofía e identidad cultural en América Latina (Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 1983).
8. See, for example, Diego Pró, Historia del pensamiento filosófico argentino (Mendoza: Universidad de Cuyo, 1973)
9. and Horacio Cerutti-Guldberg, Hacia una metodología de la historia de las ideas (filosóficas) en América Latina (Guadalajara: Universidad de Guadalajara, 1986).
10. See the introduction to Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, eds., Ethnicity: Theory and Experience (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975).
11. Many of the things that Augusto Salazar Bondy says seem to take this view for granted. See his Existe una filosofía de nuestra América? (Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1968), 112-133.
12. The classic expression of this position is found in Leopoldo Zea. See Zea, "En torno a una filosofía americana"
13. For the racial composition and variety in Latin America, see Magnus Mörner, Race Mixture in the History of Latin America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967).
14. See Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G. E. M. Anscombe (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 75, 35.
15. Some philosophers identify categories with concepts, but I do not. See Jorge J. E. Gracia, Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999), chapter 9.